Dragging a timeline clip (or its right resize edge) past the end of the
video now extends the composition duration on drop, instead of clamping
the clip at the current end. Extend-only and undoable.
- Relax the move/resize horizontal clamps that pinned a clip's end at the
current duration; effectiveDuration now folds in the active drag/resize
preview so the ruler and track width grow live as you drag past the end.
- On drop, extend the root composition data-duration (and the store) when
the clip's new end exceeds it, via a shared extendRootDurationInSource
helper extracted from the block installer (now the single owner of that
logic). An extending edit routes through the server persist path since
the SDK setTiming op can't express the root composition's own duration.
Blocks and components now start at the current playhead position
instead of being appended after all existing content. If the new
element extends beyond the root composition's data-duration, the
root is automatically extended to fit.
insertTimelineAssetIntoSource now detects the parent indent level and
adds the new element with matching child indentation. Block attributes
are written one-per-line for readability.
Blocks were using their own native dimensions (e.g. 1920x1080) instead
of the host composition dimensions (e.g. 1280x720), causing them to
overflow the viewport and break the layout. The block's iframe scales
its content to fit the container, so using host dimensions is correct.
Replace fragile regex z-index parsing with getComputedStyle on the
preview iframe elements — the same source of truth the inspector uses.
Rename "Layer" to "Z-index" in the design panel for clarity.
- Rename "Blocks" tab to "Catalog"
- Replace fullscreen hover popup with inline preview in main area
- Fix z-index: newly added blocks/components use max existing z-index + 1
instead of element count, ensuring they appear on top
Blocks dragged from the Blocks panel and dropped onto the composition
preview now land at the position where they were dropped, instead of
always being placed at (0, 0).
The preview viewport converts screen coordinates to composition space
using the stage element's bounding rect, accounting for zoom and pan.
A visual drop indicator (dashed border overlay) appears while dragging
over the preview.
Timeline move, delete, and asset-drop operations were looping over every
clip in the file and writing style="z-index: N" derived from an inverted
data-track-index mapping. This silently overrode the author's CSS z-index
— contradicting the documented contract that data-track-index does not
affect visual layering — and persisted the corruption in the source HTML.
Remove the z-index injection loops from all three timeline commit paths.
Move and delete now only patch timing/track attributes on the affected
clip. Asset drop still sets z-index on the newly created element via the
generated HTML, without touching existing clips. Delete the now-unused
buildTrackZIndexMap helper.
Also fix patchInlineStyleInTag to handle self-closing void elements: the
old code produced malformed `<img ... / style="z-index: 7">` because it
didn't account for the trailing `/` before appending the style attribute.
Closes#958
Adds a Blocks tab to the Studio left sidebar with the full 78-item registry
catalog (58 blocks + 20 components). Users can browse by category, search by
title/description, preview CDN-hosted poster thumbnails with video-on-hover,
and install items on-demand with one click or drag-to-timeline.
Core changes:
- BlockCategory type + resolveBlockCategory() for 7 categories (Captions, VFX,
Transitions, Effects, Social, Data, Scenes)
- Registry API routes: GET /api/registry/blocks (catalog) + POST install
- StudioApiAdapter extended with listRegistryCatalog + installRegistryBlock
- Vite adapter reads from disk; CLI adapter fetches from GitHub (24h cache)
- BlockParam interface + params on 6 blocks for future parameter controls
Studio UI:
- 4th sidebar tab "Blocks" with responsive grid, category pills, search bar
- BlockCard: CDN poster thumbnail, video autoplay on hover, duration + WebGL badges
- On-demand install: blocks append as sub-compositions on timeline; components
overlay at start=0 spanning full duration with transparent background patching
- TIMELINE_BLOCK_MIME drag-and-drop to timeline
- BlockParamsPanel (Phase 3 scaffold) auto-opens for parameterized blocks
Registry manifests:
- All 58 blocks backfilled with preview: { video, poster } CDN URLs
- All 20 components normalized to object format + poster URLs added
- 6 blocks annotated with params (Liquid Glass/Background, Portal, Chart,
Logo Outro, Magnetic)
- flowchart-vertical preview generated and uploaded to CDN
Miguel Angel Simon Sierra